The unscrupulous efforts of some of the world’s top climate scientists to silence dissent among skeptics is the latest discovery from the Climategate emails that were leaked last week.  Analysis of the messages shows that the scientists colluded together to stifle the opinions of anyone who disagreed with them. 

As the Climate Change Examiner wrote:

Swimming against the tide is never an easy task. Scientists that disagreed with the manmade climate change theory have learned that if you’re swimming against the ‘consensus’ of global warming, it can not only be hard, it can be a nasty business.

For years those who believe other factors beyond man drive the planet’s climate have said they were blocked from publication and been the target of a concerted effort to silence them. Their complaints were largely ignored but with the release of the Climategate documents and emails, the proof shows their claims were not unfounded.

An analysis of the emails from a veritable who’s who in climate science show that some of the world’s top scientists worked directly against dissenting scientists. The scientists worked to discredit other’s work, oust them from professional organizations, exerted pressure on scientific publications and went so far as to consider pushing an educational institution to review the doctorate of a scientist. The moves appear to go far beyond a scientific debate and read more like a vendetta against dissenting opinions.

The story here has all the details and examples how the scientists colluded together in rather disturbing fashion.

Also see:

• Legal fallout of Climategate – CEI to sue NASA 
• Climategate – A who’s who of the scientists in the emails
• Climate change scientists launch defense of Climategate emails
• ClimateGate emails provide unwanted scrutiny of climate scientists
• ClimateGate – Climate center’s server hacked revealing documents and emails